Office Work, Part Deux: Professional Mayhen

[call ducks]

Ohhh my i can't keep meet turkeys here i can't keep meat turkeys here i can't keep meat turkeys here.


Cause i if i do gramp puts laying hens in with them then they start keeling over.... Most likely from blackhead

next year i am hatching more eastern wilds

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

Meat turkeys are kind of pointless anyway in that they get TOO big to even really cook well without hacking the turkey up.

 

[sparkles2307]

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Oh yum. Is there anyplace decent in ND or MN to get Greek food? I think I may have been spoiled for life by a Greek restaurant in St. Louis.

The only place that tastes good is Santa Lucia's in Fargo but its freaking expensive.

 

[mclevinson]

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Sometime I want quail. Are yours pretty or edible or both?

I think both. they're not one of the flashy blues, but they're lovely white, brown and reds, lay me eggs and make excellent gouda stuffed bacon wrapped quail.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/30078_chickity_chick.jpg

Yum!

 

[LarryPQ]

This morning, my favorite turkey poult was in the yard, killed by the dogs. She was handicapped, and not a jumper/explorer. Shane and I checked the coop and we can't figure out how she got out.

Since I did NOT let the birds out yesterday, there was no way she could have roosted somewhere weird (like I thought the silkies did yesterday). Further inspection found I am missing a chick from my heavy-heavy duty brooder. There is no way a chick could escape on its own.

So...could someone be coming into my yard and pulling birds out of the coop? Why? We have too many roosters, but all our neighbors know they are leaving on the 8th (the university is using them for grant research).

Could someone be sick enoungh to do that? The silkies and the handi-turkey all roosted in the same area of the coop, all they'd have to do is open the door, pick one off the pile, and toss it out.

 

[sparkles2307]

That bites, set up a trail camera in the yard. I hope its not a people doing it.

 

[mclevinson]

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That's an ugly mystery. Especially the chick in the brooder, why not take more if they were being stolen? Could it have been a neighborhood kid just wanting to pet some? Grab a big one, too much trouble...drop it and get a smaller more easily handled one? Dog gets the abandoned big one. DH#2 get's into mine if I don't padlock the pens, she just wants to hold them.

Sorry you have SUCH an ugly mystery. Padlocks. I have a key on my house ring and a spare hidden behind the coop attached with velcro. It's a pain, but I have to do it that way.

 

[LarryPQ]

The one chick is strange.

The flock of dead silkies, a giant red flag.

(yesterday I came out to find all my silkies, save one, and a speckled sussex pullet dead in the yard. I thought they had roosted under the truck instead of going to bed, but now I am not so sure.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

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I think both. they're not one of the flashy blues, but they're lovely white, brown and reds, lay me eggs and make excellent gouda stuffed bacon wrapped quail.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/30078_chickity_chick.jpg

Yum!

Seriously, bacon wrapped gouda stuffed ANYTHING is likely to be good.

 

[mclevinson]

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Oh no. Not a kid wanting to pet chickens. I must have missed this one yesterday.